Shawn Henry, the FBI’s Executive Assistant Director of Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, announced his retirement to take a job in the private sector. Henry is the latest in a string of top cyber officials to retire from government. More here. A GAO audit found that the DHS needs...
Internet-service providers should adopt an industrywide standard to help keep hackers from taking over customers’ computers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said. Providers of high-speed Internet service, such as Comcast Corp. and AT&T Inc., need to create a c...
The computer-hacking confederacy Anonymous might be able to cause a limited power blackout in a year or two, the general who directs the National Security Agency has warned officials, TheWall Street Journal is reporting. Gen. Keith Alexander’s warning of a cyberattack on the electrical grid ha...
China is stealing online information from the United States and feeding the data to homegrown companies for commercial benefit, Michael Hayden, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency said at the Black Hat Technical Security Conference in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday....
The long-delayed launch of a troubled $1.7 billion online system for reviewing immigration applications has been postponed indeterminately because the tool is not functioning properly, according to internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memos reviewed by Nextgov. USCIS officials as rece...
On Monday, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey warned about the constant breaches to the nation’s cyber-security and continued vulnerability to cyber-terrorism. U.S. military officials have frequently warned that cyber threats are an area of increasing focus...
Military networks and software must be tied to the cloud to defend Defense Department computers against adversaries, the Pentagon’s cyber chief said Wednesday night. Currently, Defense data reside on three main systems that cannot be centrally secured, creating disparate levels of protection t...
via Military.com ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The new academic year marks the beginning of the Naval Academy’s new cyber security curriculum, in which midshipmen are required to take classes that will enhance their knowledge of cyber warfare and the threat it poses to national security. Discussion o...